Meridian DSP3200
The DSP3200 is instantly recognizable as a Meridian design.
Beautifully mirroring the curves of their flagship DSP8000 Loudspeaker, this compact loudspeaker provides performances beyond its compact dimensions.
The precision-manufactured cabinet is finished in a high-gloss white and high-gloss black, and is perfectly suited to an extensive variety of room locations including bookshelf, on wall, as well as on floor stands. Like all Meridian Loudspeakers, the DSP3200 employs Meridian’s award-winning DSP technologies; each DSP3200 contains amplification, on-board digital signal processing, and two drivers. The result is a strikingly attractive loudspeaker that provides a perfect entry into the range of DSP Loudspeakers.
The traditional setup – amplifiers driving passive loudspeakers – is inefficient, limiting sound quality. Meridian loudspeakers contain a complete, matched audio system with efficient DSP crossovers, multiple DACs and driver-specific amplifiers, giving higher overall quality, less power use, and the performance of a traditional loudspeaker eight times the physical volume. Traditional audio systems often require large, expensive cables to maintain their performance. Meridian's SpeakerLink uses an “Ethernet style” cable that delivers pristine digital sound and control down a single cable between Meridian components. The result is simple, unobtrusive, and cost-effective cables that are easy to install.
Each sample of a digital recording must remain evenly spaced in time. Unfortunately, timing can vary, especially when reading discs. This is “jitter”, degrading music's sense of space and diminishing realism. Meridian's multiple “First In, First Out” buffering system minimises jitter, ensuring perfect timing and improved clarity. You enjoy a clearer feeling of the instruments and their interrelationship.MHR was the first approved encryption method for transferring high definition digital audio between components. Previously, it had to be in the analogue domain, reducing quality. MHR allows secure movement of high resolution digital audio within a Meridian system, without compromise, improving quality by reducing cyclic repetition.
Filters are critical in digital audio. Commonly they introduce distortion and harshness because of "pre-ringing". Early digital recordings suffer from harshness too, due to primitive filters. After painstaking research, Meridian developed a special filter that avoids pre-ringing, so it can be steeper, cleaning up the effects of early filters. The result: a better, cleaner sound from recordings old and new.
Loudspeakers use crossovers to “divide” music into bands their drivers can reproduce. This introduces distortion, reducing sound quality – particularly on human voice recordings. Designing a single driver for both mid and high frequencies made a crossover within the vocal range unnecessary, avoiding distortion and reproducing more lifelike vocals at all volume levels.
| Measurements | 32 x 24,4 x 24,6 cm. without feet |
| Weight (net) | 8.5kg |
| Design | Two way |
| Reflex port | No |
| Frequency range | 45 - 20.000 Hz ±3dB |
| Tweeter | 8.5 cm polypropylene |
| Woofer | 16.5 cm polypropylene |
| Front grill included | Yes |
| Input, network (RJ45) | Yes |
| Input, Speakerlink | Yes |
| Supported sample rates, kHz | 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 |
| Supported bit depth | 16 bit, 24 bit |
| Oversampling | Yes |
| Power | 2 x 75W (150) |
| Further information | Audio endpoint required ( ex. 218/MC200/MS200) |
| In the box | Power cable, Users guide |